Thus, in order to act in occurrences with the purpose of dispersing riots, new prototypes were acquired, including drones, according to the Public Television of Angola (TPA).
According to TPA, each drone can carry 24 tear gas grenades, fly at a length of five kilometers and an altitude of 500 meters, and have a 24-hour autonomy.
In terms of purpose, a police officer explained that the entry into operation of these technological means will avoid direct confrontation with demonstrators, being only used for "mass dispersal".
"With the entry of these drones into operation, we avoid direct confrontation with the demonstrator (...) and we only use the means to disperse the mass", he said, in statements to TPA.
He also stressed that this way they will avoid victims, since it is not a lethal gas: "We avoid victims because the gas itself is not lethal", he added, quoted by TPA.
It should be noted that, this Tuesday, the opening act of the 2023 year of police education and training took place, where the general commander of the National Police, general commissioner Arnaldo Manuel Carlos, defended the commitment to the permanent training of the staff.
According to a statement from the National Police, to which VerAngola had access, the official considered that the new technological means brought "positive aspects", but at the same time created "new parameters of threats and risks to public security, with the emergence of new radicalisms of terrorism, drug trafficking, promotion and encouragement of rebellion and other illicit acts".
For this reason, the National Police prioritized the permanent training of the forces in specialties, "to face these challenges, with the reinforcement of cutting-edge technological means, as a way of increasing the police response capacity to public security challenges" , he said, quoted in the statement.
In his speech, he also appealed to citizens to avoid "confrontations with police personnel and not to promote contempt, or disobedience to the authorities, under penalty of these attitudes generating criminal liability, for those who violate order and security public", reads the note.
The opening ceremony, which took place at the Special Training Center of PIR-Kikuxi, was attended by the second general commander of the National Police of Angola, chief commissioner Domingos Ferreira de Andrade, members of the Superior Council of Police, entities of the Angolan Armed Forces, National Police personnel, among other guests.
